Evolutionary Neuroscience

<p>Part 1: History, Concepts, and Theory<br>1. History of Ideas on Brain Evolution<br>2. Phylogenetic Character Reconstruction<br>3. The role of endocasts in the study of brain evolution<br>4. Invertebrate origins of vertebrate nervous systems</p> <p>Part 2: The Brains of Fish, Amphibians, Reptiles and Birds<br>5. The nervous systems of jawless vertebrates<br>6. The brains of cartilaginous fishes<br>7. The organization of the central nervous system of amphibians<br>8. The brains of reptiles and birds<br>9. Function and evolution of the reptilian cerebral cortex<br>10. The cerebellum of non-mammalian vertebrates</p> <p>Part 3: Early Mammals and Subsequent Adaptations<br>11. Emergence of mammals<br>12. Mammalian Evolution: The phylogenetic story<br>13. Organization of neocortex in early mammals<br>14. What modern mammals teach us about the cellular composition of early brains and mechanisms of brain evolution<br>15. Consistencies and variances in the anatomical organization of aspects of the mammalian brain stem<br>16. Comparative anatomy of glial cells in mammals<br>17. The monotreme nervous system<br>18. Evolution of flight and echolocation in bats<br>19. Carnivore brains: Effects of sociality on inter- and intra-specific comparisons of regional brain volumes</p> <p>Part 4: Primates<br>20. Phylogeny of primates<br>21. Expansion of the cortical sheet in primates<br>22. Scaling up the simian primate cortex: A conserved pattern of expansion across brain sizes<br>23. Evolution of visual cortex in primates<br>24. Evolution of subcortical pathways to the extrastriate cortex<br>25. Evolved mechanisms of high-level visual perception in primates<br>26. Evolution of parietal cortex in primates<br>27. Evolution of parietal-frontal networks in primates<br>28. Evolution of the prefrontal cortex in early primates and anthropoids</p> <p>Part 5: Evolution of Human Brains<br>29. Introduction to human brain evolutionary studies<br>30. Human evolutionary history<br>31. Evolution of human life history<br>32. The fossil evidence of human brain evolution<br>33. Remarkable, but not special: What human brains are made of<br>34. Timing of brain maturation, early experience, and the human social niche<br>35. Human association cortex: Expanded, untethered, neoteneous, and plastic<br>36. On the evolution of the frontal eye field: comparisons of monkeys, apes and humans<br>37. The evolution of auditory cortex in humans<br>38. Language evolution<br>39. The search for human cognitive specializations</p>